Category: Cattle
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Border Ruling
I know I am a little behind on this one but life sometimes gets in the way of things. The <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> <a href="http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB?contentidonly=true&contentid=2007/09/0247.xml">has approved</a> the import of Canadian cattle over 30 months of age into the US. This is, to say…
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Round Two
<a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=FBC46DE0-CE0B-FDF8-DA0FC21D2AC4EB1E">New FMD case confirmed in England</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>he British government has confirmed another case of foot and mouth disease in Surrey County. The new site is about 16 kilometers (10 miles) from the farms that were infected in July and August. The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has established a 10…
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China’s Cattle
I found <a href="http://www.capitalpress.info/main.asp?SectionID=94&SubSectionID=801&ArticleID=35109&TM=77478.55">this article</a> about the possible competition from China for the beef industry interesting. Am I overly worried about China importing meat to the US? No. Where I see the problem coming is the competition in some of the foreign markets like Japan and South Korea that China could give us. That seems…
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Outlooks
Beef herd expansion in the US <a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=154808">is still on hold</a> so the outlook for beef prices holding up is good. That's good news to me the producer, we won't talk about you the consumers. The funny thing is that weather is still the driving force here just like it is on fires recently. Everybody…
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Strange Breeding
I brought up the fact that there is some <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2811-Guess.html">dairy blood in my cow herd</a> and it seemed to take quite a few people by surprise so I thought I would talk about it a little. Like I said my dad decided to try and breed some milk production into his Angus cows and…
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Curiosity
I would really be curious to know the whole story <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2007/08/17/beef-closure.html">here</a>. We cattlemen were being told a couple of years ago that packing plants in Canada would hurt US packing plants and start a trend which would require us to ship fats to Canada to be butchered there. I personally thought it was a…
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Wrong
I've been following the foot and mouth disease outbreak in Britain with interest, does this surprise you, but something is a little wrong <a href="http://www.afrol.com/articles/26353">here</a> and <a href="http://english.sabah.com.tr/4AAD700B478D4C33B10AAFEEE0DF7D7F.html">here</a> with the reporting on this issue. Both of these stories are saying that it is <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> affecting the British herds, not foot and mouth…
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Britan’s Outbreak
<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BRITAIN_FOOT_AND_MOUTH?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" >Foot-and-mouth disease detected in UK</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Scientists worked Saturday to trace the source of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak on an English farm, a development that prompted the European Union to ban livestock imports from Britain, an official said.</blockquote><br />n<br />nIn 2001, foot and mouth disease devastated Britain's meat industries and I'm sure everyone…
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Stopped Yet Again
<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SKOREA_US_BEEF?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" >South Korea suspends US beef imports</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>South Korea has effectively suspended U.S. beef imports over mad cow concerns after a recent shipment was found to have contained banned parts, a news report said Thursday.</blockquote><br />n<br />nThat's about all the information that's in the story. I wish the meat packers would pay a…
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Lightning Strike
I saw <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/30/europe/EU-ODD-Austria-Lightning.php">this story</a> and it reminded me to mention my latest. Last week we had a thunderstorm go over our area that had some moisture in it and lots of lightning. The other day while checking the water in the far pasture, I only check it about once a week, I found a…